Sentences with phrase «promise of a balanced budget»

With the Alberta twist on LOL — lower for longer oil prices — the government has cancelled its earlier promise of a balanced budget by 2020.

The Reform Party shall hold President elect Donald Trump to his promises of balanced budgets, infrastructure renewal, term limits and trade reform.

Not exact matches

The CAQ has come out swinging with the promise of balancing the province's budget within a year of being elected.

OTTAWA — Mandatory balanced - budget legislation, interprovincial booze runs, public sector bashing and lifetime prison terms are among a grab bag of populist Conservative promises in a mid-mandate policy makeover.

The best fiscal rules are more flexible, promising to keep the structural deficit in check, for example, or pledging to balance the budget over a number of years.

And why was this change allowed to proceed, when other promised tax initiatives have to await the achievement of a balanced budget?

And they are promising more of the same - smaller, balanced budgets.

This raises the question of whether the Finance Minister will be able to balance the budget in 2019 - 20 if the Government attempts to fully implement its election promises.

In 2015 - 16, the year in which the Conservatives promised a balanced budget or better, PBO is forecasting a surplus of $ 3.7 billion, compared to the Budget 2013 forecast of only $ 0.8 bibudget or better, PBO is forecasting a surplus of $ 3.7 billion, compared to the Budget 2013 forecast of only $ 0.8 biBudget 2013 forecast of only $ 0.8 billion.

That adjusted forecast projected a surplus of $ 7.2 billion in 2019 - 20, allowing you to claim a balanced budget in 2019 - 20, after incorporating the net impact of your election promises.

In his first budget last April, Finance Magician Joe Oliver pulled a handful of rabbits out of his hat to achieve the long - promised balanced budget in 2015 - 16.

For example, the Conservative government has, along with implementing a series of modest tax breaks, promised to introduce income - splitting for couples with children under age 18, and to double the annual savings limit in tax - free savings accounts — but only once the budget is balanced.

With the federal budget coming soon, it is also worth recalling that the Liberals promised to run deficits of no more than $ 10 - billion for a maximum of three years, but the government's latest projections peg its annual deficits at almost $ 30 - billion with no timeline for returning to a balanced budget.

While the Liberal recruits spoke of worrying long - term trends of aging and lagging growth and the PQ prepared for events to tout the party's integrity, the Coalition Avenir Quebec made a bold promise to balance the budget within a year.

With $ 1 billion in support promised for the flood ravaged communities, it will be difficult for the opposition Wildrose to criticize the Premier's decision to abandon her promise to balance the provincial budget by 2014, especially as Ms. Smith's constituency includes one of the hardest hit areas.

Mulcair's balanced - budget promise sought to reassure NDP - wary voters but also curtailed the party's ambition, while the Liberals peeled off progressive support with its own abandonment of a budget - balance pledge, plus its exciting flash of radicalism — a vague plan to legalize marijuana.

Trump unveiled a $ 4.4 trillion budget for next year that heralds an era of $ 1 trillion - plus federal deficits and — unlike the plan he released last year — never comes close to promising a balanced ledger even after 10 years.

Lawmakers are also skeptical of Cuomo's promise to balance the budget — without big spending increases — while still funding many of the pricey proposals he laid out in his state of the state, which include upgrades to airports, big investments in economic development and increases in spending on education and workforce development.

Mr Osborne promised to balance the deficit within the next five years, saying that 77 per cent of the measures to do so outlined in the budget are spending cuts, while 23 per cent would come from tax rises.

And the practical solution for all this is to put the practical budget in place with a practical, balanced budget to be paid of in a short amount of time — five to seven years — and that will instill the confidence in business and the people for a promising future for the federal government and our states.

Another way of saying this is if there is a dollar left in the till, on a cash basis, the budget is balanced, no matter what future promises remain to be paid, with no assets to back up the promises.

The states, most of which had to run a balanced budget, cheated in a different way — they didn't lay aside enough cash for their pension and retiree healthcare promises.